December 2014
A door closes
... crisis is in sight. Many western and Russian commentators have declared the outbreak of ‘Cold War II’. That is far from the mark. The original Cold War was a global existential struggle in a bipolar world dominated by two superpowers – the United...
19 February 2018
Space Launch Complex 10: Vandenberg’s Cold War National Landmark
The history of rocketry and space tends to be written either by university professors as an academic exercise or by journalists and other writers with a life-long interest in the subject. This book is different in that its author is a former US Air ...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
...Spacepower, Geopolitics, and the most engaging recent title, Militarizing Outer Space: Astroculture, Dystopia and the Cold War, edited by Alexander CT Geppert, Daniel Brandau & Tilmann Siebeneichner. The boys-with-their-toys atmosphere had sufficient...
March 2015
Russia and safe space initiatives
...the West, there is a lot of talk of a risk of a new Cold War. This scenario is dangerous but hardly realistic. Russia, for its part, is fully... arms race. One of the worst elements of the Cold War was the arms race between the Soviet Union and the...
May 2019
Cold comfort for astronauts
...around the world. It was the height of the Cold War and, from the Government’s perspective, NASA represented prestige...sides – was routed in the technological advancements of World War II. Combined with the military nature of rocket technology, Wernher...
August 2016
Space stations - drivers of cooperation
... be seen as a ‘residue’ of the World War 2 and Cold War eras when competition in outer space rather than international ... Westphalia, which signalled the end of the great 30 year war. Despite the current efforts of law-makers, what applies on...
